Department of the Belarusian language

Head - Candidate of Philological Sciences Elena N. Voinava                                                                            

The department of the Belarusian language is determined by the high scientific potential: 85% of the employees of the department have academic degrees of doctors and candidates of philological sciences.

There are two Doctor of Philology, Professors and 9 candidates of philology work at the department.

The department of the Belarusian language has 13 professors, among them:

2 Doctors of Philology, Professors, 

8 candidate of philological sciences, associate professors, 

1 candidate of philological sciences, senior lecturer,

1 senior lecturer,

1 assistant.

The department holds the international and republican scientific conference:

"Traditions of the material and spiritual culture of East Polissya: problems of studying and saving time in post-Chernobyl";

"Skorina and our time";

"Light of Skaryna's ideas"

Basic educational disciplines:

• Belarusian paleography
• Introduction to Linguistics
• Modern Belarusian language
• Old Church Slavonic
• Latin
• Belarusian dialectology
• Historical Grammar of the Belarusian language
• History of Belarusian literary language
• Modern Slavic (Polish) language
• Methods of teaching Belarusian language
• rhetoric
• The culture of the Belarusian language and stylistics
• general linguistics
• History of the Belarusian Linguistics

Department operates on scientific and pedagogical school "Belarusian linguistics" (supervisor - Professor A. Stankiewich)

The main directions of scientific and pedagogical schools:

Urgent problems of contemporary and historic literary and dialect lexicology and lexicography;
Problems of style, and linguistic poetics and lingustuc programatics.

Each year perspective graduates of the Faculty of Philology and the Faculty of Foreign Languages of GSU named after F. Skorina comes to the magistracy at the Department of the Belarusian language. Undergraduates have a solid opportunity to practice scientific activities.

The best graduates of master's inspired and obsessed with research activities, have the opportunity to continue the scientific and educational activities in graduate school, which operates under the Department of the Belarusian language.
Postgraduate study and doctoral degree 10:02:01 - Belarusian.

From 1996 to 2006. Council functioned K.02.12.03 for PhD theses in 10:02:01 "Belarusian language", which was protected by 35 master's theses.

At the department also work Student Scientific Laboratory and Laboratory memorial by Doctor of Philology Profesor Vladimir Anichenko and  organized a school of young linguists. A branch of the department are working in secondary schools in Gomel: in the public schools number 10 and number 36.